BPhO and Other Things
So Friday 13th was the British Physics Olympiad. If you've never sat it, you should maybe be glad, because it's hard as nails. Or maybe...
PAT and Other Things
So Wednesday 4th was the Oxford PAT test. This year they removed short and long questions, leaving only the 'medium' ones in the physics...
Manchester Interview
On Thursday 29th November I had an interview at Manchester. This was exciting as it was the first time I had been to the city and the...
Springs, Capacitors and Devices 3
There are three basic circuit elements (ignoring voltage sources, current sources and the various semi-conductor devices like diodes):...
Springs, Capacitors and Devices 2
Maybe this will turn into a little series... this time capacitors! Firstly, you might not know what a capacitor is, so here's how it was...
Springs, Capacitors and Devices 1
Whirlwind trip through whatever things I think about. Starting with springs: We know that when we apply a force to a spring, it...
Feynman Videos
Hey all. I recently found a set of videos on YouTubefrom a workshop on Quantum Mechanics by Richard Feynman in 1983. Here's the link to...
Fast Proofs
A couple of neat proofs, because they're just uber-cool. The maths ones first: Product rule - we want to show that if f(x)=u(x)v(x), then...
Differences
I though I'd start this post with some updates about new things - I'm now in my final year of secondary school (Y13) and a few things are...
First Day Back!
Today was my first day of Upper Sixth, and I had my first Physics lesson of the year. I always come away from Physics lessons feeling a...
